ESTATE OF SPENCER v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 2254.

5 T.C. 904 (1945)

ESTATE OF CAROLINE MCCULLOCH SPENCER, DECEASED, JOHN MITCHELL SPENCER AND JOHNSON WEST, EXECUTORS, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated October 12, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnson West, Esq., and Robert S. Miller, Esq., for the petitioner.

John H. Pigg, Esq., for the respondent.


Petitioner seeks a redetermination of an estate tax deficiency of $8,028.27. The sole issue is whether the respondent erred in determining that the fair market value of 3,100 shares of class A common stock of the Hobart Manufacturing Co. was $155,000, or $50 per share, at the time of decedent's death on October 1, 1940. The case was submitted on oral testimony, documentary proof, and exhibits.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

The decedent, Caroline McCulloch Spencer, died...

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